{"id":237967,"date":"2026-05-20T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:34:08","slug":"new-york-top-real-estate-deals-tuesday-may-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237967\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Top Real Estate Deals: Tuesday, May 19, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were 208 transactions totaling $396 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before Tuesday, May 19.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Commercial: The priciest commercial deal to hit records was on the Upper West Side, where a 90-unit multifamily building at 698 West End Avenue traded for $42 million. The property stands 15 stories tall and spans about 91,500 square feet. The buyer was an affiliate of Benchmark Real Estate Group. The seller, 698 D Realty LLC, had owned the property for decades.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Residential: The Upper East Side had the top home sale recorded in the city. Thomas and Ingrid Edelman parted with a co-op and a staff unit at 775 Park Avenue for $16.3 million. The buyer was a trust tied to James Sterne. Thomas Edelman co-founded White Deer Energy, a private equity firm, and Ingrid Edelman is an interior designer. The co-op is a duplex with five bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms across 5,000 square feet. John Burger with Brown Harris Stevens had the listing, which went live in September for $18 million.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Residential: Jonathan and Eve Schenk parted with a condo at 109 East 79th Street on the Upper East Side for $16.3 million. The buyer was a trust. The Schenks had owned the 3,100-square-foot pad since 2022, when they purchased it for $9.9 million. The latest sale breaks down to roughly $5,300 per square foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Residential: Louise Riggio, widow of Barnes &amp; Noble founder Leonard Riggio, shed a co-op at 720 Park Avenue in Lenox Hill for $14.9 million. The buyer was a trust. The four-bedroom unit went on the market in October with an asking price of $17 million. Nikki Field and E Helen Marcos with Sotheby\u2019s International Realty represented Riggo in the sale.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Residential: Angel investor Zachary Weinberg sold a 3,200-square-foot condo at 39 West 23rd Street in the Flatiron District for $12 million or about $3,800 per square foot. The buyer was PH Flatiron, LLC. Weinberg had owned the unit, a three-bedroom penthouse with three and a half baths and more than 900 square feet of outdoor space, since 2024, when he purchased it for $12.1 million. The condo went on the market in January for $12.5 million. Compass\u2019 Oliver Gold and Carl Gambino had the listing.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Residential: The Canadian government sold a co-op at 550 Park Avenue in Lenox Hill for $8.1 million. The buyer was a trust in the name of hedge funder Philippe Laffont. The unit has five bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms. It measures about 4,600 square feet, pricing the sale at roughly $1,800 per square foot. Douglas Elliman\u2019s Thomas Aabo and Dustin Crouse had the listing. The unit has been on the market since August 2024, when it was listed for $9.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this digest, you can get it even earlier \u2014 every evening \u2014 by subscribing to TRD Data, <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/data\/latest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 208 transactions totaling $396 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,5452,56],"class_list":["post-237967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-city-real-estate-deals","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}